Former India captain MS Dhoni has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame’s 2025 batch, a recognition of his stellar 14-year international career marked by numerous top individual and team honours. The induction was unveiled ahead of the World Test Championship final at Lord’s.
He is the only captain to lift all three ICC senior white-ball trophies – the 50-over World Cup, the T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy. He was also captain when India ascended to the top of the ICC Test rankings in the late 2000s. Dhoni, who led India to the T20 World Cup win in 2007, ODI World Cup victory in 2011 and the Champions Trophy in 2013, said in a statement shared by the governing body that, “It is an honour to be named in the ICC Hall of Fame, which recognises the contributions of cricketers across generations and from all over the world.”
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will be inducting seven cricketers — five men and two women — into its Hall of Fame 2025. Dhoni played 350 ODIs, scoring 10,773 runs in what was his most productive format. He also played 90 Test matches and 98 T20Is in an international career that began in December 2004. In all, he scored more than 15,000 international runs across formats, hit 16 centuries, and effected 829 dismissals as wicketkeeper.
The batch of 2025 also saw the induction of the South African pair of Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla. Smith took over the reins of the South Africa side at a young age of 22 and went on to become the first captain in the history of the game to lead his side in more than 100 Tests. Amla, who played under Smith, also enjoyed a prolific career in both ODIs and Tests, scoring 8113 runs at 49.46 and 9282 runs at 46.64 respectively. He scored a total of 56 centuries across his international career.
The inductees also featured a destructive opening batter from Australia – Matthew Hayden – and a wily left-arm spinner – Daniel Vettori – from New Zealand. Hayden, who scored 8625 runs in 103 Tests at an average of 50.73, including 30 centuries, and holds the record for the highest individual Test score by an Australian – 380 against Zimbabwe. In ODIs, he amassed over 6,000 runs and was a key member of Australia’s victorious 2007 World Cup squad, finishing as their highest run-scorer in the tournament.
Vettori, meanwhile, became one of New Zealand’s most reliable performers with both ball and bat. He took 362 wickets in 113 Tests and 305 wickets in 295 ODIs, making him one of the most successful left-arm spinners in the history of the game. A crafty operator with excellent control and subtle variations, Vettori was also a handy lower-order batter, scoring over 4500 international runs. Joining these five were two trailblazers from the women’s game – Sarah Taylor of England and Sana Mir of Pakistan.
